02-25-2005, 10:42 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Thanks for the advice. I also think the fish around the Provo Harbor area look skinnier. They must not have very good shopping there for their food.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have also noticed that the shorter fish are skinnier than the bigger ones. I suspect that is because there are not many little (food sized) fish in the lake this time of year. The larger walleye can still catch and eat fair sized sunfish and white bass, but the smaller ones will keep getting skinnier until the new crop of young fish hatch out in the spring.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]For that reason, the white bass are a lot thinner now than they were late last year too. I don't know what they live on through the winter. The few I have kept in the last couple of months have had nothing in their stomachs. I know they will eat leeches and insects, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of those for them to eat either.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am sure that we will have company on Saturday. For the next month or two, all of the walleye fans will be ganging up on those poor fishies. Sometimes they move off a little ways and if you can find them you can catch them...until everybody else joins you. I will settle for one nice walleye and then play with the white bass for awhile...if they are there.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Let me know if you are going to be down there and we can get together and work out a plan. We just have to be a little bit smarter than the fish...and the other guys down there too.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have also noticed that the shorter fish are skinnier than the bigger ones. I suspect that is because there are not many little (food sized) fish in the lake this time of year. The larger walleye can still catch and eat fair sized sunfish and white bass, but the smaller ones will keep getting skinnier until the new crop of young fish hatch out in the spring.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]For that reason, the white bass are a lot thinner now than they were late last year too. I don't know what they live on through the winter. The few I have kept in the last couple of months have had nothing in their stomachs. I know they will eat leeches and insects, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of those for them to eat either.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am sure that we will have company on Saturday. For the next month or two, all of the walleye fans will be ganging up on those poor fishies. Sometimes they move off a little ways and if you can find them you can catch them...until everybody else joins you. I will settle for one nice walleye and then play with the white bass for awhile...if they are there.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Let me know if you are going to be down there and we can get together and work out a plan. We just have to be a little bit smarter than the fish...and the other guys down there too.[/#0000ff]
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